Founded in 1969, the OIC is now a 56-state collective which includes every Islamic nation on Earth. Currently headed by Turkey’s Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the OIC thus represents the entire Muslim umma (or global community of individual Muslims) and is the largest single voting bloc in the United Nations.

John Laffin, the late (d. 2000) military historian and prolific writer on Islam, warned in 1988 that the Jedda-based OIC, under Saudi Arabia’s patronage, was persuading Muslim nations to jettison even their inchoate adoption of “Western models and codes,” and to revert to pre-colonial era (pre-Western) retrograde systems of Sharia, or Islamic law. The Saudis proffered sizable loans and grants from their institutions in return for the more extensive application of Sharia in these targeted OIC countries. Laffin also noted the unprecedented Saudi distribution of media and print materials which extended to non-Muslim countries, including tens of millions of Korans, translated into many languages for the hundreds of millions of Muslims (and non-Muslims) who did not read Arabic. He concluded at that time:

Propaganda is carried on from Riyadh on a scale comparable to Moscow’s effort to spread communism.

Fast forward 22 years, and two special U.S. envoys to the OIC later (both the former, Sada Cumber, and current envoy, Rashad Hussain, will be in attendance at the Chicago OIC program), and one must seriously consider the extent of OIC propaganda efforts aimed at the Islamization of our country. Perhaps in Chicago some intrepid (and informed) mainstream media reporter — underscoring how the OIC’s agenda is diametrically opposed to the U.S. Constitution — will ask the representatives of this avatar of mainstream Islam about its blatant rejection of freedom of conscience, described below.

Elizabeth Kendal, in a recent commentary about the plight of brutalized Egytpian Muslim “apostates” Maher el-Gowhary and Nagla Al-Imam, made a series of apt observations which illustrate the most salient aspect of Islam’s persistent religious totalitarianism: the absence of freedom of conscience in Islamic societies. Egypt, Kendal notes, amended its secular-leaning constitution in 1980, reverting to its pre-colonial past and designating Sharia (Islamic law) as “the principal source of legislation” — an omnipresent feature of contemporary Muslim constitutions, including the new constitutions of Afghanistan and Iraq — rendering “constitutional guarantees of religious liberty and equality before the law illusory.” This is the inevitable outcome of a Sharia-based legal system, because:

Sharia’s principal aim concerning religious liberty, is to eradicate apostasy (rejection of Islam) through the elimination of fitna (anything that could tempt a Muslim to reject Islam) and the establishment of dhimmitude — the humiliation and subjugation of Jews and Christians as second class citizens [or non-citizen pariahs]; crippling systematic discrimination; violent religious apartheid …

In Egypt, as in virtually all Muslim states, a person’s official religion is displayed on their identity card. According to Sharia, every child born to a Muslim father is deemed Muslim from birth. According to Sharia, a Muslim woman is only permitted to marry a Muslim man. (This is the main reason why Christian men convert to Islam, and why female converts to Christianity will risk life and liberty to secure a falsified/illegal ID, for without a Christian ID they cannot marry a Christian.)

The opening of the preamble to the Cairo Declaration repeats a Koranic injunction affirming Islamic supremacism (Koran 3:110; “You are the best nation ever brought forth to men … you believe in Allah”), and states:

Reaffirming the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which Allah made the best nation …

Believing that fundamental rights and universal freedoms in Islam are an integral part of the Islamic religion and that no one as a matter of principle has the right to suspend them in whole or in part or violate or ignore them in as much as they are binding divine commandments, which are contained in the Revealed Books of God and were sent through the last of His Prophets to complete the preceding divine messages thereby making their observance an act of worship and their neglect or violation an abominable sin, and accordingly every person is individually responsible — and the Ummah collectively responsible — for their safeguard.

[Article 24] All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Sharia. … [Article 25] The Islamic Sharia is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification to any of the articles of this Declaration.

These statements capture the indelible influence of the Islamic religious law Sharia: the Cairo Declaration claiming supremacy based on “divine revelation,” which renders sacred and permanent the notion of inequality between the community of Allah and the infidels. Thus we can see clearly the differences between the Cairo Declaration, which sanctions the gross inequalities inherent in the Sharia, and its Western human rights counterparts (the U.S. Bill of Rights; the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights), which do not refer to any specific religion or to the superiority of any group over another, and stress the absolute equality of all human beings.

Freedom of thought … is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. With rare aberrations a pervasive recognition of this truth can be traced in our history, political and legal.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.

Islam is the religion of unspoiled nature. It is prohibited to exercise any form of compulsion on man or to exploit his poverty or ignorance in order to convert him to another religion, or to atheism.

Ominously, Articles 19 and 22 reiterate a principle stated elsewhere throughout the document, which clearly applies to the “punishment” of so-called “apostates” from Islam:

[19d] There shall be no crime or punishment except as provided for in the Sharia.

[22a] Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Sharia.

[22b] Everyone shall have the right to advocate what is right, and propagate what is good, and warn against what is wrong and evil according to the norms of Islamic Sharia.

[22c] Information is a vital necessity to society. It may not be exploited or misused in such a way as may violate sanctities and the dignity of Prophets, undermine moral and ethical values or disintegrate, corrupt or harm society or weaken its faith.

Punishment by death for apostasy from Islam is firmly rooted in Islam’s foundational texts, both the Koran (verses such as 2:217 , 4:89, and their classical exegesis by renowned Koranic commentators such as Qurtubi, Baydawi, Ibn Kathir, and Suyuti) and the hadith (i.e., collections of the putative words and deeds of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, as compiled by pious Muslim transmitters), as well as the sacred Islamic law (the Sharia). For example, Muhammad is reported to have said “kill him who changes his religion,” in hadith collections of both Bukhari and Abu Dawud. There is also a consensus by all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence (i.e., Maliki, Hanbali, Hanafi, and Shafi’i), as well as Shi’ite jurists, that apostates from Islam must be put to death. Averroes (d. 1198), the renowned philosopher and scholar of the natural sciences who was also an important Maliki jurist, provided this typical Muslim legal opinion on the punishment for apostasy:

An apostate … is to be executed by agreement in the case of a man, because of the words of the Prophet, “Slay those who change their din [religion].” … Asking the apostate to repent was stipulated as a condition … prior to his execution.

Leaving Islam is the ugliest form of unbelief (kufr) and the worst. … When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostasizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed. In such a case, it is obligatory … to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.

This doctrinal and historical legitimacy of Sharia-mandated killing of apostates from Islam is affirmed by Heffening in his scholarly review for the authoritative, mainstream academic reference work, the Encyclopedia of Islam:

In Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), there is unanimity that the male apostate must be put to death. … A woman, on the other hand, is imprisoned … until she again adopts Islam … [or] she also is put to death.

As noted by historian David Littman, Adama Dieng, then a prominent Muslim Senegalese jurist, alerted the international community to the Cairo Declaration’s profoundly dangerous impact, which under the rubric of Sharia deliberately restricted certain fundamental freedoms and rights — most notably, freedom of conscience. He also argued that the Cairo Declaration introduced “in the name of defense of human rights,” unacceptable discrimination against non-Muslims and women, while sanctioning the legitimacy of heinous practices — Sharia-compliant punishments (from corporal punishments, to mutilation, and stoning) — “which attack the integrity and dignity of the human being.”

Pew Survey data published August 13, 2009, reflects starkly the depth and prevalence of popular support among the Muslim masses for these hideous views, sanctioned by their theo-political Islamic leadership within the OIC, and contrary to our foundational Western freedoms. Specifically, the Pew findings reveal that among Pakistani Muslims:

78% favor death for [apostates] those who leave Islam; 80% favor whippings and cutting off hands for crimes like theft and robbery; and 83% favor stoning adulterers.

The universality of these Islamic attitudes affects Muslim communities in the West, including North America. Syed Mumtaz Ali, the late architect of Canada’s Sharia (Islamic Law) tribunal, and law professor Ali Khan both have openly advocated extending Islamic apostasy laws to the West. Mumtaz Ali, in a disturbing essay, affirmed the traditional Islamic legal viewpoint that apostates must “choose between Islam and the sword,” arguing further that if Canada were to act in accord with its own Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian government must grant the country’s Islamic community authority to punish those Muslims who apostasize, or malign their faith.

Washburn University law professor Ali Khan, another practicing Muslim, provided a more original, but no less chilling rationale for Muslims in the West to violate, fatally, the basic freedom of conscience of their co-religionists. Khan argued in The Cumberland Law Review that apostasy from Islam is an “attack” upon “protected knowledge,” which if deemed (i.e., by some Islamic tribunal one must assume!) to be “open, hostile, and voiced contemptuously,” justified punishment by death. Ali Khan is convinced that traditional Islamic law precepts antipodean to freedom of conscience nevertheless trump this foundational Western freedom:

There is great wisdom (hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital punishment), and so, even if it makes some uncomfortable in the face of the hegemonic modern human-rights discourse, one should not dismiss it out of hand.

[The organization was] founded to provide guidance for Muslims living in North America. … AMJA is a religious organization that does not exploit religion to achieve any political ends, but instead provides practical solutions within the guidelines of Islam and the nation’s laws to the various challenges experienced by Muslim communities.

They further issued these rulings, in 2006 and 2009:

Dr. Hatem al-Haj 2006-04-17 As for the Sharia ruling, it is the punishment of killing for the man with the grand Four Fiqh Sharia scholars, and the same with the woman with the major Shari`ah scholars, and she is jailed with Al-Hanafiyyah scholars, as the prophet, prayers and peace of Allah be upon him, said: “Whoever a Muslim changes his/her religion, kill him/her”, and his saying: “A Muslim`s blood, who testifies that there is no god except Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah, is not made permissible except by three reasons: the life for the life; the married adulterer and the that who abandons his/her religion.”

Dr. Main Khalid Al-Qudah 2009-01-02 Under the authority of the Muslim state, the People of the Book have the right to stay on their belief without being compelled to embrace Islam. But if one of them has embraced Islam, it would not be acceptable from him to go back to his original religion. The same rule applies to those who are born into Muslim families. According to the Islamic Law, they cannot commit apostasy.

Dr. Main Khalid Al-Qudah 2009-04-10 As for the second one, the “people” in this hadith means either the apostates who had become Muslim and then retreated to disbelief thereafter, or the polytheists who do not attribute themselves to any divine religion. This second possible meaning has been mentioned in Imam Al-Nasa’i’s narration: “I have been commanded to fight against the polytheists until they … ” In Islam, neither of these categories of people is allowed to remain on their religion. The fact that there is no compulsion in religion does not negate the other fact that someone who has embraced Islam cannot change his mind afterward and embrace polytheism.

To repudiate the threat from authoritative Sharia to the religious freedom and safety of former Muslims.

Sadly, the OIC may find fertile grounds for any planned Islamization campaign in America, spearheaded by like-minded American Muslims.

Andrew Bostom (http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/) is the author of The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (2005/2008) and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History (2008).

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America is based on Constitutional principles/protections-at least it used to be-but without reforming our PC lexicon we will never be able to beat back the barbarism of Islam.

To wit, suppose Nazism had been piggy backed to a specific religion, where its worshipers several times a day came to pray at a collective house of worship. Imagine what would happen to such houses of worship AFTER horrors were revealed that the Nazi machine inflicted over the world during World War 2.
Would anyone support NOT outlawing all their ‘houses of worship’?

So, if one honestly admits that Islamic jihad is being perpetrated under the banner of the religion of Islam-as the leading Islamic authorities keep stating, but our leaders refuse to hear them-isn’t it incumbent upon US leaders (and other so called democracies)to outlaw the barbaric teachings of Islam?

Changing the discourse, focusing on the lexicon of what Islam really is-a totalitarian, fascist doctrine, cloaked under the guise of religion-will go a long way to dismantling the scourge in our midst.

EVERYONE, EVERYONE!!! Should take it upon themselves to read the koran

EVERY church should have a study group to find out what exactly the koran preaches.

When you talk, talk to your church members about doing this. A church is a excellent place for this exercise….

Find out what this “religion” of hatred is, a religion of blaming the other guy, killing people that do not believe as they do . A thousand years ago, man was uninformed, ignorant if you will…today we know better, at least most of us do.

Abi and Adina,
Very good points both. Throw in the Haditha and Sura to boot. Those of us who have taken the time to learn about this ugly religion need to work hard to convince others to join with us and to pressure our politicians to inform themselves about Sharia. At the very least, Sharia (the most repugnant aspects of it) should be outlawed in the U.S. Otherwise, the Islamists will continue to promote Sharia Law within its borders with impunity. Articles like this one shine the light on what a despicable religion Islam can be… and is. It is well written and well documented. All one must do is verify the documentation and one will see that Islam (and most certainly Sharia) is antithetical to a free society. It’s not good enough to call the Islamists out. The light must be shined on them and on their repugnant vision of humanity. They deserve humiliation…. risky as that may be.

Propaganda is carried on from Riyadh on a scale comparable to Moscow’s effort to spread communism.

The truth is that the saudis are moving a war against Freedom that is FAR LARGER AND DEEPER than anything the old evil empire could do.
The saudis are BUYING our elites: they buy our universities, they buy our “journalists”, they buy our politicians.
They have an immense reserve of money: OUR money.

We could build an immense range of nuclear power plants, we could tap into immense reserves of oil and gas: we don’t do it because the saudis have bought our politicians, and our money goes to the saudis to help the expansion of islam.

Without our bribed politicians and journalists (and pseudo “intellectuals”), the only power behind islam would be…sand.

It’s important that we understand the danger of islam, but it is important that we understand why and how the danger is growing so quickly.

we must remove this president by impeachment if possible, certainly by vote in 2012. he is the sole reason for this scourge of islam in our country. every fascist scum is crawling out o the woodwork with an anti-western, anti-american, anti-israel agenda. and, no matter how putrid they are, or how much of a thug or despot, they get their azz licked by this president.

But HOW? By refusing to have ANY goodies of this civilization which is BASED on oil and oil products as the cheapest alternative to date?

I have different “proposal” (but seriously doubt if that is practical in current environment with THOSE PC politicians, intellectuals et. al:

CONFISCATE “their” oil fields, or rather take them back (since it was THEM who stole them from the Western discoverers in the first place). If they rebel, send few armies to deal appropriately (maybe annihilate Mecca?)

Problem is Muslims have no conscience or conscience totally eliminated following Islam. Where is the conscience coming in when you have to obey what Mo/allah says no matter how vile that order is. This why Muslims have carried out invasions, lootings beheadings, murders, rapes, and on and on such vile acts which any human being with a conscience would resist and decline to carry out. But not Muslims, their history as well as the present day actions prove it on a daily basis!!!

“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

“The sword of Muhammad and the Quran are the most fatal enemies of civilization, liberty, and truth which the world has yet known.”
Eminent orientalist Sir William Muir (1819-1905)
Churchill ? Muir?? Naaaah! Nobody but one and only Mr. Shef Rogers who knows “American history” !!!
Long-lasting standing ovation…

“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

“The sword of Muhammad and the Quran are the most fatal enemies of civilization, liberty, and truth which the world has yet known.”
Eminent orientalist Sir William Muir (1819-1905)
Churchill ? Muir?? Naaaah! Nobody but one and only Mr. Shef Rogers who knows “American history” !!!
Long-lasting standing ovation…

Yeah, because of all those Americans killed by Catholic terrorists, right?

Did any Pope proclaim anything remotely like this?

“Those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under Allah’s law, the Sharia. … Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those who say this are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by the unbelievers? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter them. Does this mean sitting back until infidels overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender to the enemy? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!”

We certainly know lots more about the totalitarian, barbaric nature if islam and it’s threat to our country….than they did in the 19th century. The internet you know? The clowns in turbans won’t get away wit this for too long. It’s already started to go against them. When sleepy New Yorkers get pissed off….you know trouble is coming.

I hope we have grown over the past century+…we understand it is wrong to have mass killings because someone disagrees with you..not that they hurt you, stole from you etc…but merely disagreed with your religious beliefs..Islam/muslims HAVE NOT

lEARN ABOUT THE KORAN FOLKS…READ IT, KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE UP TO AND FIGHT BACK

Oh, for God’s sake. If you actuiually read history, you would be awatre that the Know-Nothings concoted some sort of Evil Catholic Conspiracy to Rule the World, the Pope as Bond villain, with _and here’s the gravamen of the matter – absolutely no basis in reality. You see, IF you had read history, my supercilious friend, you would be aware that no 19th-century Pope ever issued a proclamation remotely like this one:

“Those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [Allah’s law; the Sharia]. … Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those who say this are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter them. Does this mean sitting back until infidels overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!”

–Ayatollah Khomeini

19th century America was also, in case you hadn’t noticed, remarkably free of repeated mass murders by fanatical Catholics.

The fool will always make false equivalencies, for he has no discernment.

Islam and sharia law would be the end of civilization. To my knowledge no new science, medicine, no mode of transportation beyond a camel or an ox cart has come from a Muslim country that uses sharia as a basis of law. Muslims are modern people if you consider 650 AD modern.

Islam has stifled any innovation. It’s a robber’s creed. All those ‘inventions’ by Arabs/Islam such as the concept of ‘zero’ have all been copied from other cultures. Their grandest Mosques are copies or outright use of buildings which existed prior to their takeover by marauding Muslim hoards. It’s impossible to take away knowlege from a group. You can burn books, steal books, etc, but the knowlege still exists in the minds of the inventors. Accordingly, books can be written again, inventions can be reconstructed and civilization goes on. Since most of the ‘islamic paradises’ are incredibly primitive that’s proof enough that the Muslims invented essentially nothing.

It is prohibited to exercise any form of compulsion on man or to exploit his poverty or ignorance in order to convert him to another religion, or to atheism…Information is a vital necessity to society. It may not be exploited or misused in such a way…

Apparently, it’s ok to exploit a man’s poverty or ignorance to convert him to jihad and the joys of martyrdom.

Or even a child’s poverty or ignorance.

…Islamic legal viewpoint that apostates must “choose between Islam and the sword,” arguing further that if Canada were to act in accord with its own Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian government must grant the country’s Islamic community authority to punish those Muslims who apostasize, or malign their faith.

They’ll never stop pushing for Shari’a authority in Canada, including, but not limited to, this sort of absurd reach.

Just go home to some Shari’a compliant country and slaughter your apostates at will.

I guarantee you, Allah (SWT) does not smile kindly on your foul killings.

I remember when bin laden added the whole Israel thing into his fatwas, as almost an afterthought.

Despotism, of course, needs the enemy at the gate to distract peoples from their own lack of freedom. This, in the end, is where Palestine does play a role — but not in the sense that King Abdullah and others believe. It is a most convenient diversion that allows regimes to mobilize hatred against the Other that is Israel.

There is most certainly laws within the Immigration and Naturalization Act that have to do with immigrants or foreigners who would instill and install or use by force or other action to disassemble the Constitution of the United States and or create anarchy(junta;etc.) within the United States. The end result is that these foreigners/people on a VISA/or immigrant are to be DEPORTED. Yes, Deported. Start reading up. It’s time to put our FEDERAL laws to good use. It’s time to get our elected officials activated or at least educated about Sharia Law and Islam and it’s damn sure time to stop all this insane ‘islamophobia’ talk unless it means being phobic to Islam because one understands what Sharia Law means and would like people to be able to live in peace and prosperity instead of fear and constant harassment and bloodshed. The Saudi Madrassas in Virginia and elsewhere need to be closed down as well. These are training schools for future jihadis. There’s a whole plethora of stealth evils going on that has GOT to be stopped and NOW. What kind of world are we going to leave to the younger crowd? Surely not Sharia Law and Islam and all the vile ugliness and barbarity it entails.

madam X
Thank you for reminding us that the Immigration Act protects the US from Subversive Elements threatening our Constitution and Democracy.We must demand that our government inforces it.Enough is enough!

If Islam is a social organization posing as a religion, it can’t have full immunity under the Bill of Rights; Freedom of Religion. I find it absolutely incredible that these Islamic groups are allowed to converge with such blatantly obvious agenda to dismantle this country. I’m beyond civil words for this I’m so profoundly disgusted.

Sometimes a mistaken statement is the truth, but not the complete truth of one’s thinking. Barack Hussein Obama noted there are 57 states and he had visited every one of them during the 2008 campaign. The question is can he have slipped and instead of the United States of America he was noting the islamic countries or states? …………

Are you out of your mind? Apparently, you have Never been in a synagogue where the congregants argue with the rabbi, the cantor, etc., ALL the time??

Jews love to argue and they do not believe in any infallible knowledge, decisions or abilities of their clergy. Yes, the arguments can drive you crazy, but for the most part, I am pleased that the Jews are stiff-necked (they do not believe in submission!!).

We were taught to use the brains that G-d gave us (most of the time). However, I am sorry for our liberal doofuses — they are JINOS.

It is high time that we sue the Koran and Hadith as urging the muslims to kill the jews,christians,Infidels,apostates from Islam,and women who “dishonored “their families as bigoted texts that should be banned from all the Mosques in the world.Burning a Koran a day puplicly, will bring the people’s attention to its evil and get them interested to read it for themselves and see the hate it contains to fellow human beingses[ecia;;y women.Go to google”Muslims against sharia” to read the 344 pages of the Koran or the 12 page summary of all the passages totally incompatible with our liberties,constitutions and democracies.
READ THE KORAN.BURN THE KORAN.STOP ISLAM

As Muhammad said, “war is deceit,” and us ill-informed, timorous, naïve, and easily fooled “unbelievers” have had sand thrown in our eyes, our hopes and fears are being played on like a cheap Chinese violin and, buffeted, blinded and disoriented, we are constantly being turned around, mislead and deceived by Muslims, by Islam and by their agents and allies and partisans in the West; we are being very carefully led down the path to our own destruction.
As has already been said, while there may be “moderate Muslims” there is no “moderate Islam,” and the fact of the matter is that, as the writer says, a la Mao and his “Peoples War,” the sea of “moderate Muslims” is where the Jihadis swim, and get their oxygen, their food, and their concealing cover. If it were not for the absolutely essential cover and support they receive from “moderate Muslims,” the Jihadis would not be able to operate with anywhere near the freedom that they currently have; Muslim solidarity against us hated “unbelievers,” and the law of Muslim “Omerta” have served the Jihadis extremely well.
The Jihadis are not “Islamists” or “radicals,” or “fundamentalist” Muslims, nor are they a “fringe group” but rather, they are very much mainstream Muslims for, from what they say, from the passages of the Qur’an, from the sayings and incidents in Muhammad’s career, from the precedents from Muslim history they cite as justifications for their actions, they are grounded in, embody, and are acting out the fundamental viewpoint, tenets and goal of the conversion, enslavement, or killing of all unbelievers and of the world’s conquest by Islam that is the central thrust of the Qur’an, of Muhammad’s life, and of Islam itself.
In my view, the billion or so “moderate Muslims” are ominously silent spectators, gathered on the sidelines of the current battlefield where their more activist coreligionists, the Jihadis, attack and fight and kill us unclean, hated “unbelievers” (including those Muslims who the Jihadis find insufficiently orthodox in viewpoint, or those Muslims who unfortunately happen to be “collateral damage” when the Jihadis are just trying to “get ‘er done”). I view the silence of these “moderate Muslims” and their inaction—no statements or demonstrations of any kind or size against Jihad and Muslim violence and terror, no proposed major excision of the violent parts from the Qur’an, or popular centers, leaders, or movements pushing this idea–as acquiescence, not disapproval, for, after all, the Qur’an tells them that any spoils wrested from the unbelievers will be their legitimate war booty. They are not our saviors; they are Islam’s reserve battalions, which will come in on the side of the Jihadis for the final kill.
The writer is correct in his diagnosis and correct in the treatment he recommends, although he sees way too many shades of gray here. Islam is not a religion but a violent, supremacist, totalitarian military and political ideology cloaked in the thinnest of religious disguise, an ideology that has been very carefully created to be impervious to reform, and any real and thorough reform would take the heart out of Islam and destroy it. While “containment” of Islam might be possible, compromise with Islam is not; Islam is not built for compromise.
There really are only one of two possible outcomes here, either the “unbeliever” democracies of the West recover their “civilizational confidence,” and their clear moral vision, we decide that us unbelievers and our civilization and ideals are, indeed, worth defending and fighting for, and after a very long or a very short and incredibly bloody struggle involving nuclear weapons, Islam is decisively defeated, or Islam wins its war of deceit, subversion and violence, the West and all its nations and peoples are conquered and enslaved, and we enter a new Dark Ages.

Wow, wasn’t there just an article called “Muslims Behaving Badly”?
Oh Wait. Maybe it was called ” Islam Expert Not Shocked by Disappearance of ‘Draw Muhammad’ Cartoonist”?
No Wait, It could have been” Christians Warn Against Double Standard in Wake of Quran Burning Row”?
Or Maybe its “Koran Burning: How Dare the Muslim World Lecture America on Religious Tolerance”?
How ’bout “Muslims Resume Building on Christian Graveyard in Pakistan”?
How ’bout this “NYC Mosque Rhetoric May Harm Persecuted Christians”?
Can it be “Controversial Jesus TV Show Canceled in Lebanon”?
I getting close “Pakistani Court Acquits Christian Woman of ‘Blasphemy”?
Closer “Prospects of Religious Freedom Appear Grim in Islamic Maldives”?
Closer “Poll: 3 in 5 New Yorkers Oppose Ground Zero Mosque”?
Closest “Muslim Protesters Surround Worshippers in Indonesia”?
Gee, for so few radicals around (As the lame-stream media tells us), they sure get around, don’t they?

Islam The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage
by Michelle Malkin
09/10/2010
Shhhhhhh, we’re told. Don’t protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don’t burn a Koran. It’ll imperil the troops. It’ll inflame tensions. The “Muslim world” will “explode” if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national security-threatening impudence, but when is the “Muslim world” not ready to “explode”?
At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways.
Just a few months ago in Kashmir, faithful Muslims rioted over what they thought was a mosque depicted on underwear sold by street vendors. The mob shut down businesses and clashed with police over the blasphemous skivvies. But it turned out there was no need for Allah’s avengers to get their holy knickers in a bunch. The alleged mosque was actually a building resembling London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. A Kashmiri law enforcement official later concluded the protests were “premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.”
Indeed, art and graphics have an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world’s atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened German supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfeld-designed dress printed with a saying from the Koran. In 1997, outraged Muslims forced Nike to recall 800,000 shoes because they claimed the company’s “Air” logo looked like the Arabic script for “Allah.” In 1998, another conflagration spread over Unilever’s ice cream logo — which Muslims claimed looked like “Allah” if read upside-down and backward (can’t recall what they said it resembled if you viewed it with 3D glasses).

Even more explosively, in 2002, an al-Qaida-linked jihadist cell plotted to blow up Bologna, Italy’s Church of San Petronio because it displayed a 15th century fresco depicting Mohammed being tormented in the ninth circle of Hell. For years, Muslims had demanded that the art come down. Counterterrorism officials in Europe caught the would-be bombers on tape scouting out the church and exclaiming, “May Allah bring it all down. It will all come down.”
That same year, Nigerian Muslims stabbed, bludgeoned or burned to death 200 people in protest of the Miss World beauty pageant — which they considered an affront to Allah. Contest organizers fled out of fear of inflaming further destruction. When Nigerian journalist Isioma Daniel joked that Mohammed would have approved of the pageant and that “in all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them,” her newspaper rushed to print three retractions and apologies in a row. It didn’t stop Muslim vigilantes from torching the newspaper’s offices. A fatwa was issued on Daniel’s life by a Nigerian official in the sharia-ruled state of Zamfara, who declared that “the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is abiding on all Muslims wherever they are to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty.” Daniel fled to Norway.
In 2005, British Muslims got all hot and bothered over a Burger King ice cream cone container whose swirly-texted label resembled, you guessed it, the Arabic script for “Allah.” The restaurant chain yanked the product in a panic and prostrated itself before the Muslim world. But the fast-food dessert had already become a handy radical Islamic recruiting tool. Rashad Akhtar, a young British Muslim, told Harper’s Magazine how the ice cream caper had inspired him: “Even though it means nothing to some people and may mean nothing to some Muslims in this country, this is my jihad. I’m not going to rest until I find the person who is responsible. I’m going to bring this country down.”
In 2007, Muslims combusted again in Sudan after an infidel elementary school teacher innocently named a classroom teddy bear “Mohammed.” Protesters chanted, “Kill her, kill her by firing squad!” and “No tolerance — execution!” She was arrested, jailed and faced 40 lashes for blasphemy before being freed after eight days. Not wanting to cause further inflammation, the teacher rushed to apologize: “I have great respect for the Islamic religion and would not knowingly offend anyone, and I am sorry if I caused any distress.”
And who could forget the global Danish cartoon riots of 2006 (instigated by imams who toured Egypt stoking hysteria with faked anti-Islam comic strips)? From Afghanistan to Egypt to Lebanon to Libya, Pakistan, Turkey and in between, hundreds died under the pretext of protecting Mohammed from Western slight, and brave journalists who stood up to the madness were threatened with beheading. It wasn’t really about the cartoons at all, of course. Little-remembered is the fact that Muslim bullies were attempting to pressure Denmark over the International Atomic Energy Agency’s decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council for continuing with its nuclear research program. The chairmanship of the council was passing to Denmark at the time. Yes, it was just another in a long line of manufactured Muslim explosions that were, to borrow a useful phrase, “premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.”
When everything from sneakers to stuffed animals to comics to frescos to beauty queens to fast-food packaging to undies serves as dry tinder for Allah’s avengers, it’s a grand farce to feign concern about the recruitment effect of a few burnt Korans in the hands of a two-bit attention-seeker in Florida. The eternal flame of Muslim outrage was lit a long, long time ago.